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  • Posted by
    on 11 Jan 2011 12:18 PM
    And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. - Phil 1:6
     
    Appropriately enough this was emailed to me today.  It doesn't matter how long I have been a Christ Follower.  Me will continue his work on me, molding me and shaping me into the woman he wants me to be.  I believe that I had not really learned to Love in a relationship.  I've used the pains and torments of my past to keep people distant from me.  I've built up walls to keep myself from being hurt.  All the while I have isolated myself and made myself lonely.  
     
    What are my issues that keep me isolated? My negative self image is one, my feelings of unworthiness, the feeling of not being loved, and not being good enough. This is an issue that a lot of women struggle with, and I am not alone.  how do I combat this?  Look at the cross. 
    Look at God's word. Psalms 139:14-17

    13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
    and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

    14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

    15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

    16 You saw me before I was born.
    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
    Every moment was laid out
    before a single day had passed.

    17 How precious are your thoughts about me,t O God.
    They cannot be numbered!
     
    How can I say all of the negative things about myself when God knew exactly what he was doing when he made me.  I am the person I am because of him.  How can I resent the trials in my life because they are what brought me to this moment in time.   
     
    How can I feel unworthy or unloved when God sacrificed his Son to save me?
    These are lies we tell ourselves.  We are the oens that keep ourselves in bondage.  Freedom is inc Christ, and in God's word. 
  • Posted by
    on 12 Jan 2011 8:06 AM

    The greatest thing about what you wrote here. Now you can realize how much of a blessing all that was. All the hurt, all the lies, all the distance.....

    It is exactly that, is what had brought you to Christ today. It was those blessings that will and have given you understanding to what you are now receiving from Christ. Without it, you may still be lost.

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